'Body in the garage' trial - Killer Clown pair guilty

Karl Nuku. Photo / Herald on Sunday

Two members of the Killer Clown Fiends gang have been found guilty of the murder of 38-year-old Auckland man Dean Browne in the "body-in-the-garage" trial.

The jury took four hours to unanimously find Mikhail Pandey-Johnson, 23, and Karl Nuku, 19, guilty after a five-week trial in the High Court at New Plymouth.

A third defendant, Rhys Fournier, 22, was found not guilty in an 11-1 majority verdict.

The trio were part of a group that called themselves
the Killer Clown Fiends.

Mr Browne was killed with a hammer in a Wellington flat on January 21 last year.